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Over the past few years, in collaboration with Jonathan Grudin, David Rumelhart, Donald Norman, and Serge Larochelle, I have been studying transcription typing in the laboratory. Typically, typists would be asked to transcribe normal English prose from typewritten copy. This corpus of naturalistic data, now totaling over half a million keystrokes, has been a rich vein of information on the development and performance of a highly practiced skilled action.
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Gentner, D. R. Skilled finger movements in typing (Tech. Rep. 104). La Jolla, Calif.: University of California at San Diego, Center for Human Information Processing, July 1981.
Gentner, D. R. Evidence against a central control model of timing in typing (Tech. Rep. 8108). La Jolla, Calif.: University of California at San Diego, Center for Human Information Processing, 1981.
Gentner, D. R., Grudin, J., & Conway, E. Finger movements in transcription typing (Tech. Rep. 8001). La Jolla, Calif.: University of California at San Diego, Center for Human Information Processing, May 1980.
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Gentner, D.R. (1983). Keystroke Timing in Transcription Typing. In: Cooper, W.E. (eds) Cognitive Aspects of Skilled Typewriting. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5470-6_5
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